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Latitude: 55.0478 / 55°2'52"N
Longitude: -3.1923 / 3°11'32"W
OS Eastings: 323916
OS Northings: 573239
OS Grid: NY239732
Mapcode National: GBR 6B42.N9
Mapcode Global: WH6Y1.YD04
Plus Code: 9C7R2RX5+43
Entry Name: Garden Walls And Gatepiers, Steading, The Braes Farmhouse
Listing Name: The Braes Farm House, Steading, Garden Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 4 October 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 350810
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16974
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200350810
Dated 1737. 2-storey, 3-bay house with pedimented and
bolection-moulded doorway; 19th and 20th century additions; rectangular-plan and gabled set at right angles to one
barn and byre to SE. Quadrangular garden enclosure to S, with
gatepiers. Whitewashed rubble and ashlar dressings, house
with painted margins. Slated roofs.
HOUSE: S elevation, central (modern) door in double-lugged
bolection moulding, date on frieze, steep-pitched pediment
with entwined monogram; sash windows throughout with
chamfered margins; eaves/lintel band; skew moulding run
horizontally below (rebuilt) stacks and stepped at eaves to
link with cornice. Similarly detailed full-height
transverse wing on W gable probably earlier 19th century, and
forming L-plan house: modern low addition adjoins at W;
garage to E incorporates stone-built wall at S; full-width
modern addition to rear.
INTERIOR: much altered, but good swagged later 18th century
chimneypiece in sitting room; marble chimneypiece from
Halleaths.
BYRE AND BARN: both earlier/mid 18th century, both
another and linked by shed. Byre (linked to garage) with
modern addition to E, 2-storey W elevation; 2 horizontal
tiers of square dovecot flight-holes in N gable: barn with regularly-spaced slit ventilators, large central doorway on N
wall.
GARDEN WALLS AND GATEPIERS: ashlar-coped walls, blocked
doorway at E with 1731 lintel; corniced square gatepiers,
painted ashlar, with ball finials raised on bell-cast
plinths. Railed wrought-iron gate.
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